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Motz carries more debt per resident than 99% of compared communes

Gerard Clerc has been mayor of Motz since March 20, 2026, elected by the 11 members of the municipal council. A single list stood in March 2026, MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain, and took all 11 seats. Motz is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Lac.

Next municipal elections

March 2032

Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.

Register to vote ↗

Throughout this page, the median in Savoie and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Motz has 482 residents; every compared commune has 2,507 or more, so read its place among them with that in mind.

Mayor
Gerard Clerc
since March 20, 2026
Council members
11
including 3 deputy mayors
Turnout, March 2026
61%
first round · France median 57%
Debt per resident
€4,562
end of 2025 · France median €748
In brief

What stands out about Motz’s town hall

A single list

Only one list stood in Motz on March 15, 2026: MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain. It took all 11 seats; with no rival list, voters could only vote for it, cast a blank ballot or stay at home. 2026 elections ↓

Turnout above most communes

61.3% of registered voters in Motz voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 69% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Savoie was 59.7%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓

More debt per resident than most

Motz owed €2.2M at the end of 2025, €4,562 per resident: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 344% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓

A big year for investment

Motz invested €2,335 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 64% of its spending: higher than in 99% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. The commune’s money ↓

Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.

Who’s in charge

The council the voters chose

Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.

Municipal council · 11 seatsMotz municipal councilMOTZ ensemble pour construire demain: 11 of 11
  • MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain11

As elected in the first round, March 15, 2026.

The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority.

Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.

Who runs Motz

4 authorities share the work

The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.

Commune · the town hallMairie de Motz

Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.

Mayor: Gerard Clerc · 11 councilors

Intercommunality · communauté d’agglomérationCommunauté d'agglomération Grand Lac

The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.

DépartementConseil départemental · Savoie

Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.

RégionConseil régional · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.

Who to ask

Birth, marriage and death certificatesMairie de Motz
Registering to voteMairie de Motz
Nursery and primary schoolsMairie de Motz
Building permits (filed at the town hall)Mairie de Motz
Household waste (usually)Communauté d'agglomération Grand Lac
Collèges (ages 11 to 15)Conseil départemental · Savoie
RSA, care for older people, child protectionConseil départemental · Savoie
Lycées (ages 15 to 18)Conseil régional · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Regional trains (TER)Conseil régional · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
ID cards and passportsAny town hall that takes applications, by appointment

The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.

Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.

Who represents Motz

From the mayor to the intercommunality

The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.

  1. 1
    Mayorsince March 20, 2026
    Gerard Clerc
  2. 2
    Deputy mayors3 adjoints, elected by the council
    Denis JeantetMyriam Ortiz GutierrezSylvain Ceccon
  3. 3
    Motz municipal council11 seats by list
    MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain 11

Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.

The council

The 11 members of the Motz municipal council

The mayor and 3 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.

NameOfficeSince
Gerard ClercMaireMarch 20, 2026
Denis Jeantet1er adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Myriam Ortiz Gutierrez2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Sylvain Ceccon3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Show the full council (11)
NameOfficeSince
Gerard ClercMaireMarch 20, 2026
Denis Jeantet1er adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Myriam Ortiz Gutierrez2ème adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Sylvain Ceccon3ème adjoint au MaireMarch 20, 2026
Annie BrunConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Zoe BuckleyConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Laure GuimetConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Vincent LaloyConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Olivier MorelleConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
David RenduConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026
Amandine ViretConseiller municipalMarch 15, 2026

Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.

The council: same source as Who represents Motz, above.

2026 elections

How Motz voted in March 2026

A single list stood.

Municipal council of Motzfirst round · March 15, 2026
MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain11 seats100.0%

201 votes cast for a list

Turnout · first round
61%

236 of 385 registered voters in Motz voted.

6 blank and 29 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.

Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026

MotzMedian in SavoieFrance median
Voted61.3%
0%50%100%

Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.

2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.

The commune’s money

Motz spends €3,660 per resident a year

The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.

Spending
€3,660
per resident, 2025
€1.8M in all
Running costs
€1,325
per resident, 2025
€634K in all
Investment
€2,335
per resident, 2025
€1.1M in all
Debt
€4,562
per resident, end of 2025
€2.2M in all

Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes

MotzMedian in SavoieFrance median
Spending€3,660
Running costs€1,325
Investment€2,335
Debt€4,562
€0€3,000€6,000

Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025

€0€2,250€4,500€6,750€9,00020182019202020212022202320242025Spending 2018 : €5,098Spending 2019 : €6,243Spending 2020 : €1,283Spending 2021 : €1,708Spending 2022 : €2,667Spending 2023 : €2,152Spending 2024 : €3,213Spending 2025 : €3,660Debt 2018 : €7,438Debt 2019 : €6,850Debt 2020 : €6,266Debt 2021 : €5,816Debt 2022 : €5,473Debt 2023 : €5,146Debt 2024 : €5,065Debt 2025 : €4,562DebtSpending

Motz owed €2.2M at the end of 2025, €4,562 per resident, higher than in 99% of compared French communes, equal to 344% of a year’s running costs.

Show year by year
YearSpendingInvestmentDebtDebt in all
2025€3,660€2,335€4,562€2.2M
2024€3,213€2,010€5,065€2.3M
2023€2,152€1,133€5,146€2.3M
2022€2,667€1,589€5,473€2.4M
2021€1,708€613€5,816€2.6M
2020€1,283€360€6,266€2.8M
2019€6,243€5,276€6,850€3M
2018€5,098€4,010€7,438€3.3M

Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.

Towns its size

The highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size

The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.

Motz €4,562
Watten
€0€2,400€4,800

Lowest: Watten, €1. Highest: Motz, €4,562.

Get involved

Have a say in Motz

Register to vote

French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.

service-public.fr ↗
Check your registration

See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.

service-public.fr ↗
Go to a council meeting

Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.

service-public.fr ↗
Contact the town hall

Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Motz in the public services directory.

lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗
Stand for the council

Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.

interieur.gouv.fr ↗
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
  • How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
  • The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
  • The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
  • Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
  • The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.

Questions about Motz’s town hall

Who is the mayor of Motz?

Gerard Clerc, mayor since March 20, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).

How many councilors does Motz have?

The Motz municipal council has 11 members, the mayor and 3 deputy mayors included.

Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Motz?

Only one list stood: MOTZ ensemble pour construire demain, which took all 11 seats.

What was the turnout in Motz?

61.3% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.

When are the next municipal elections in Motz?

Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.

How much debt does Motz have?

€2.2M at the end of 2025, €4,562 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.

Which intercommunality is Motz part of?

Motz is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Lac, which runs the services its communes share.

Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).

Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.